Combined curtain and shade holder.



No. 825,471. PATENTBD JULY 10, 1906-.

E. F. LUETGBNAU. COMBINED CURTAIN AND SHADE HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED 0GT.30. 1905.

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TE srarns PATENT OFFICE.

COMBINED CURTAIN AND SHADE HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 10, 1906.

Application filed October 30,1905. Serial No. 285,128.

7 To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, EBERHARD F. LUET- GENAU, a citizen of the United States, residing at Alexandria, in the county of Madison and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Curtain and Shade Holder, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide an improved combination curtain and shade holder embodying novel features, whereby a shade of the spring type may be so mounted as to be readily adjustable even if the spring thereof should become deranged and also embodying novel features of construction of the parts for holding a laterally-adjustable curtain on the same brackets that support the shade.

Another object of the invention is to provide a device of this character in which the parts may be cheaply and easily made and assembled and conveniently operated.

For a full description of the invention and" the merits thereof and also to acquire a knowledge of the details of construction of the means for effecting the result,reference is to be had to the following description and accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view. Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view of the left-hand hanger or bracket. Fig. 3 is a similar view of the other bracket. Fig. 4 is a top plan view. Fig. 5 is a detail perspective view illustrating particularly the retaining-pins for the ends of the curtain-rods.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the the following description and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the same reference characters.

Referring to the drawings, the referencenumeral 1 designates two angular brackets designed to be attached to a window or door casing or to the wall of a room so that their supporting-arms 2 will project outwardly therefrom and each of these brackets may be readily stamped or formed out of sheet metal or some similar cheap and light material. One arm of one of the brackets is provided with a recess or notch 3, while the other is provided with an aperture 4, and beyond the said notch or aperture each of the said arms 2 is provided with two openings 5 and a larger opening 6 intermediate the same, there being provided in one of the openings 6 a vertically-disposed concaved pulley 7 and in the other of said openings a horizontallydisposed corresponding pulley 8. Two curtain-rods 9 are supported upon the correspondinglyopposite openings 5 of the two brackets 1 and may be provided with ornamental knobs at their ends, and each of said rods 9 is provided at its end with an opening designed to accommodate one end of a U- shaped wire retaining-pin 10, the said pins extending laterally from one rod to the other and being inserted in the same, whereby to maintain the rods on the brackets as againstlongitudinal displacement.

The rods 9 are designed to support the two curtains 11 and are arranged parallel to each other, as shown, and on each of said rods there is mounted a plurality of curtain-rings, one row of which is designated 12 and the other 13. The outermost ring of the row 12 is rigidly secured to the rod upon which it is mounted, as is also the outermost ring of the row or set 13, as shown in the drawings, and to the innermost rings of said rows 12 and 13 there is secured a single operating cord or cable which passes first over the horizontally' disposed pulley 8, thence along the rearmost rod 9, is attached to the innermost ring of the set 12 as shown at 15, and thence passed through the said row of rings and outwardly around the vertically-disposed pulley 7. The said cord or cable 14 is then returned around said pulley 7 along the outermost rod 9 and is secured to the first ring of the row 13 at the point designated 16 and is then passed through all the rings of that row and again backwardly over the horizontally-disposed pulley 8, both ends of the single operatingcord 14 being within convenient reach of the operator.

From the above description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, it will be seen that if the operator pulls upon one end of the cord or cable 14 both of the curtains 11 will be simultaneously adjusted toward each other into closed position, while if the other end of the said cord is pulled on the two curtains will be drawn away from each other into open position. The pulleys 7 and 8 being mounted as designated enable the curtains to be drawn with a minimum degree of exertion. The brackets 1 aredesigned to support in addition to the curtain-holding rods a shade which in the present instance is of the springroller type, (designated 17,) one gudgeon of said roller being mounted in the notch 8, while the other is mounted in the end of a spool or drum 18, the other end of said spool III) being seated in the orifice of the other bracket. An operating cord or cable 19 is Wound around the said spool or drum 18, and by this means if the spring of the shade-roller is defective or becomes deranged the shade may be still raised or lowered bymeans ofthe spool. It is obvious that the spool may be employed either With a shade of the spring type or an ordinary shade Without the spring construction. 1

Having thus described the invention, What is claimed as new is A device of the character described comprising brackets provided at their ends With tWo openings 5 and anintermediate opening 6, a verticallydisposed pulley mounted in one of the said intermediate openings, a horizontally-disposed pulley mounted in the other of said intermediate openings, tWo parellel rods mounted at their ends in the other 1 openings of the brackets, and projecting therethrough, tWo U-shaped pins each hav ing one end secured in the projecting end of one of the rods and its other. end secured in the projecting end of the adjacent rod, curtain-supporting rings mounted to slide on said rods'and arranged in tWo series, one for each curtain, and a single operating-cord for both series of rings, said cord passing over the horizontally-disposed pulley to one series of rings, thence around the vertically-disposed pulley t0 the other series of rings, and finally back over the horizontal pulley.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of tWo Witnesses.

EBERHARD r. LUETGENAU. [1 3.]

lVitnesses:

JosEPH SCHERER, ADoLPH ROLL. 

